Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick.

Perseverance is king.

Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.

A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.

Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is

Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, But four times he who gets his blow in fust

Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.